Improvement in card-holders



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WILLIAM n. `OA'ILEY, 0E ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, AssIeNoE 'ro HIMSELE, E. H-

soRANToM, AND L. e. WETMORE, 0E SAME PLACE.v

Letters Patent No. 94,127, dated August 24, 1.869.

IMPRovEMENT IN CARD-HOLDERS.

i The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making .part of the same To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. OATLEY, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe, and State of New York,

have invented'a new and useful Bill-Head Holder,

.The nature of this invention consists in providing a` very cheap and durable article of manufacture, consisting of a skeleton bill-head holder, and for other similar articles.

To enable others to make my invention, 'I will describe its construction,

I use tinned or galvanized wire, of suitable strength for the size ofthe holders or cases to be made, and cut it into proper lengths to form the diiierent sections of' the frame. i

The Wire a may extend from one lower front cor- 11er up and around as indicatech formingthe hangerloop y, and down to the opposite front corner.

The wire b may entend from the same corners, across and up, so as to form the lower back wire.

The upper front wire lis locked to a, asseen, and maybe connected with the division-wire c by one or more` vertical braces, d.

There should be two central holding-wires, j, to susftain the contents of the case.

Where the cross-wires join the others, there should be a short bend, e, made, to prevent the cross-wires from moving out of' place, without being soldered.

It is obvious that the holders may be made with any desired number of compartments or divisions, and of any size or'forni;V and also, that the wireslnay be cut and joined'in a great variety of ways.

1t will be seen that there can no dust or. dirt lodge in this holder, to soil the papers deposited init, which is quite objectionable in the ordinary article.4 Besides, this can be sold for a mere fraction of the 'cost of the others.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a stationery-ease or rack, constructed of wire, substantially as described.

` WILLIAM R. OATLEY.

Witnesses:

F. H. CLEMENT, y WM. S. LoUGHBoRoUGH. 

